Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
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Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
In May 1903 the first three issues of The Burlington Magazine were collected in a volume of over four hundred pages that also contained the Magazine’s first subject index. This covered only three months’ worth of material but extended to over twenty pages with meticulously detailed headings such as ‘Collector-speculator and collector-amateur: a distinction’; ‘Cocoanuts [sic], ostrich eggs, shells, ivory, etc., used as bowls mounted in silver, England, early sixteenth century’ and ‘Orange, dull tint of, emblem of resignation, etc., among Oriental religious mendicants’.
An examination of the frames on the portraits of Mr and Mrs Samuel Pepys by John Hayls.
A sheet of drawings by Nicholas Hawksmoor for a civic building in Chester.
An article identifying Grand Tour figures in the caricature paintings of Thomas Patch.
Pre-Raphaelite works on paper from the collection of Thomas Hester Aryes donated to Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton.
War imagery in Paul Nash’s Landscape at Iden (1929) and the influence J.-F. Millet’s Angelus may have had on this composition and Objects in relation (1935).
The commissioning of Henry Moore’s bronze Knife edge mirror two piece (1976–78) and its installation outside the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
